WSFHS OPEN DAY AND FAMILY HISTORY FAIR

Saturday 4th November 2017

Woking Leisure Centre, Kingfield Rd, Woking, GU22 9BA

10am  4.30pm

Research Area

This will be in the Main Hall this year and will provide a wide range of resources for research. Transcripts of the Parish Registers of West Surrey Poor Law Index, Surrey
Monumental Inscriptions Indexes, Surrey Soldiers who died in WW1, the IGI and more will be available together with microfiche readers where needed.
There will be a large selection from the Societys Reference Library to look at and will include Surrey items, London/Middlesex items
(including the Victorian A-Z of London) and some that cover the whole country such as Phillimores Atlas of Parish registers.
For those wanting to find out if anyone in the Society is researching the same name, the
Members Interests files will be available, together with the Total Descent
Charts.
Volunteers will be on hand to give help and advice with these resources.

Bring your research!

Specialist Help Desks

Army Research Help Desk - Capt Graham Bandy (to be confirmed)

Canadian Research Help Desk - Penny Allen

Census Detectives

Dating Old Photographs Help Desk - Bob Brock

DNA and Genealogy Help Desk - Dr Brian Swann

Irish Research Help Desk - Ruth Mathewson

Reading Old Documents Help Desk - Isabel Sullivan

Scottish Research Help Desk - Dr Ian MacDonald

Free Talks

Talk

Speaker

Time

Scottish Research

Dr Ian Macdonald

11.00am - 11.50am

War Memorials Register and Lives of World War 1

Catherine Long

12.05pm - 12.55pm

Townies, Ancestors in small market towns

Dr Jane Howells

1.10pm - 1.35pm

Going back in time: free resources for finding people, 13th to 18th centuries

Dr Gill Draper

1.45pm - 2.10pm

Brickwalls

Mark Bayley

2.25pm - 3.05pm

Family History Fair

The deadline for bookings has now passed and the following organisations have reserved tables: